The Spectator Magazine App Reviews

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Taki. By far the best observer of human dignity and frailty told with witty and self-effacing humor! Surely my best read of the week. Ephcharisto polu, adelphe, M. Marchlewski, s.j.

Poor. Magazine won’t download in app.

So refreshing..... I’m British but have lived in Latin America for over 40 years (pretty much all my adult working life) and for the last 13 or so have been in Acapulco, Mexico where I am now semi-retired. After getting fed up with the banality of the US media and frankly the “pinko bias” of the BBC too, I took out an on line subscription to “The Spectator” and I’m loving it. It’s so refreshing to read common sense commentary expressed in clear concise English and with that familiar British “twist” that I can still fully identify with despite having lived overseas for so long. Many congratulations on your excellent periodical and keep up the good work. Best wishes, Phil Hutchins

Mr. Wonderful writing, a great read to end the working week.

The Spectator. Reading the Spectator is like going to a party and talking with fascinating people who are unpredictable. Most are charming and amusing in an inimitably British way even though their opinions vary widely and may sometimes be strange. I highly recommend it.

British Expat in USA. The most intelligent magazine on mostly UK current affairs issues, as well as US ones too. It’s the clever presentation of pertinent information that makes it unfortunately a rare publication. Highly recommended for any critical mind.

Great text, app is difficult to access. I’ve subscribed and can’t seem to get access reliably.

Great magazine. Informative, well written, up-to-date. It’s been published since 1870!

Significantly Degraded. Less intuitive and clumsier than prior versions. Call this one a fail and bring back the predecessor please.

The Cream of Contemporary British Commentary. Slightly to the left of the WSJ and much more to the right of the NY Times, the Spectator combines the very best of British commentary on world politics and the arts. The contributions of the weekly columnists are erudite and constantly entertaining. Overall, the best weekly read for anyone with the most marginal interest in UK culture but beyond this a fine-edged view of word events.

Frustrating and near impossible to use. This is the third format of Spectator download I have used. The first one was the best. Each of the two “upgrades” has been worse than its predecessor. The latest is a disaster. This latest version makes it very hard to download successfully, and many times when I have been on a train or a plane I have found that the magazine did not download. When I read the magazine it does not bookmark the last page I read and so whenever I resume reading it takes a full minute to get back to where I was. Please either fix this app or scrap it.

Highly recommended. Simply the best economic, political and philosophical comment I read. Keep it up Fraser and team!

A beacon of sanity. Many would accuse the Spectator of political bias, but most of these critics are tied to much more ideologically charged media. The pot calling the kettle black. If you take time to read the articles it quickly becomes apparent that this kettle is boiling over with common sense, clarity, factual analysis and diverse points of view, some of which are thought provoking, and challenging whatever the readers political preferences might be. Well done!

Love the mag. Love your mag! Sometimes hooting out loud. You cheer up this old lady locked up in deepest sw France.

Swiping to left to advance page is sometimes non responsive. As tittle says.

Amazing magazine, decent app. Like a cry of reason from beyond the darkness that is the modern conservative movement in the US, The Spectator celebrates common sense over zealotry and reasonable discourse over ideology. Let the left be blinded by beliefs and ridiculous schemes. I want a magazine that deals with the world as it is, not as it "should" be, and that magazine is The Spectator.

Enjoying S again. In about 1979 I had a letter in the Spectator rebuking Auberon Waugh for sneering at American breakfasts. Someone on the staff wrote a friendly reply saying not to worry, Waugh was a „professional sneerer“. In all the years since then I have especially missed the Competition, Taki, Jeffrey Bernard and the pointed conservative view. A pleasure and a relief.

Simply awful app. This app seems designed to frustrate its readers. Enjoying an article, but then called away? Rest assured you will never find it again; when you re-open the app it will have vanished, and there is no search function. Scrolling Twitter on your iPad and find a link to a Spectator story? Well, it won’t take you here. Better re-enter your password information in the browser. Exasperating.

Terrible App. Never works properly

One of the Best. I've been a Spectator reader for perhaps twenty years and consider the magazine one of the best available. As an American citizen, I tend to skip over much of the writing on British domestic politics, but the Spectator offers so very much more. There's an amazing variety in the subject matter on offer. The reviews are useful. Most of all, the use of language is precise; the articles concise. I'm old fashioned enough to believe that what's worth saying not only may but must be said clearly. The Spectator's writing is the antithesis of the usual prose of wet concrete that infest journals like (to pick one at random) the New York Review of Books. And the Spectator is often quit funny, too. Such a deal. The app has been greatly improved over the years. Early versions of the app made reading a bit of a penance. Those day are mercifully over.

Spec. Magazine is the best but the download system is rank. Also in App spotlight is pretty useless as only looks in downloaded articles, it should look on the web.

Where Have Comments Gone?. I am a new subscriber. The app worked beautifully for a few days, but now no longer includes a comments section after each article. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled with no change. Please advise on what could be causing this? Thank you.

Clever scam. You can subscribe for a year, but if you don’t renew, you lose all access to the issues that you purchased. You’re only buying access, not the actual magazines.

Excellent. A magazin worth reading!

New version difficult to use. The latest update is in many ways a visual improvement, but the magazine is now difficult to read. If you use the menu to skip ahead to an article, and then try to resume reading the magazine from the start, scrolling to the next article takes you back to the article you reached from the menu, rather than just the next page. So scrolling from page 1 to 2 actually takes you to page 40, if you’d been reading page 40 beforehand. Can this please be addressed in the next update?

Great magazine. However, why they felt the need to make the app worse with the recent update I do not comprehend.

Love the Speccie but app keeps crashing. App keeps crashing on my iPad.

A must have!. I don’t always read every article but I do always need to know the Speccie is available to me whenever I want some intellectually honest political food for thought. Love him or hate him, Taki is unmissable, plus regulars like Charles Moore, Rod Liddle and Douglas Murray can be quite brilliant. Read The Spectator and find out.

Liberating read.. Refreshingly opinionated and outspoken. My new favorite read.

The Perfect Friend. The Spectator is like a good friend who helps you makes sense of the world. It’s the perfect blend of politics, humor, and culture. In the chaos of the world it’s comforting to have The Speccie in my life.

Deluxe. Almost always first class reporting and great fun to have Rod and Taki to lighten the moment.....with sage comments along with the irony. I’m a fan!

UK Politics & Culture for Cosmopolitans.... Unsurpassed insiders' views of UK politics, from grand strategy through titillating gossip. First class reviews of the UK's manifold cultural offerings.

Problem trying to read offline. I have been a subscriber for over 10 years, first through Kindle then through the iPad app. I love the Spectator and have recommended to many. However, a recent update to the app has made it impossible to read downloaded issues offline. After about 20 minutes of offline reading, the app boots me out of the downloaded magazine and requires a login. As my favorite time to read The Spectator is on flights, this is a real problem. Either I am forced to purchase expensive internet service on the flight (if available) or I have to read some other less enjoyable publication that does allow offline reading. PLEASE FIX THIS!

Offer?. You offered a free trial if I added the app. NO FREE TRIAL on the app, so I deleted the app. That's bad customer relations and now I am no longer interested in subscribing.

No app support. I had read the SPECTATOR for years in print and was thrilled to have the ease of the APP. I love the writing. HOWEVER, subscribing thru iTunes (which is the only way you can do a monthly sub) has become a nightmare in using the app. For many months the app is not recognizing the iTunes sub on any iOS device. Mini iPad, iPad or iPhone. I have submitted several 'ticket' and no one responds with a viable solution. There is no web id for iTunes users and no matter how many times I delete and reinstall the app there are NO DOWNLOADS of the current mags. Nor can one use the iTunes sub to access the website ... This is really unforgivable - the app has not been updated since 2014 and there was a major iOS update this year. It's sad. I doubt I will hear from any one at the SPECTATOR. If I do I will come back and write another review. Do not purchase this app.

Specie subscriber. I just gave this one star. Not because of the content. I thoroughly enjoy Jeremy Clarke especially, but all the other content as well. When I can get to it, that is. I hope the people at The Spectator are reading this, because YOU HAVE RUINED THE APP. There wasn’t anything wrong with the old app. It was straightforward and worked perfectly. THAT’S ALL WE SUBSCRIBERS WANT. The new app is maddeningly convoluted. It takes too much time to find what I want to read, and once found, there’s no guarantee that a simple click will bring it up. You sold out to gearhead app designers and change for change’s sake. This is a frustrating disaster. Keep it simple, stupid.

Unrivaled by any other news/information source.. I have cut loose my subscription-tail in all areas: I have no need to pay for access to information sources that spew propaganda, lies, fabricated buzz-word accretions, and other goal-oriented political misinformation that is shameless in marketing Marxist ideology. The Spectator is ONE subscription that I refuse to give up because I require the quality of content and the way it’s presented. There are many reasons that account for the longevity of this publication, and I appreciate all of them. Plus: I won’t live without my favorite writers like Douglas Murray, Katy Balls, Rod Liddle, Peter Hitchens.

Great app, great articles!. A breath of fresh air in today's news oultlets! Recommend

It's Right Wing but not Wing-Nut. I've been reading the Spectator for years. It's basically a magazine for political junkies but as an ex-pat I find it keeps me in touch with the zeitgeist in England. They are now full on fascists. Delingpole and Moore are the first ones I'd put against the wall. Then that asswipe Taki. It’s a disgusting magazine and I’ve cancelled my subscription.

Patrick Balsham. I can’t even get to the article to read it!

Keeps crashing. Great content but app keeps crashing on 12.9” iPad.

CBH. Great magazine for the variety of topics, originality of the pieces, and especially smoothness of the prose. But on an iPhone 6, not so much.

The best. What can I say? The Spectator reliably amazes and delights. It’s chai at the price.

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Subscription issues. Lovely prose - incompetent accountants. Stop double billing us!

Very good App. Media use could be improved.. Excellent reader App. Latest iteration is top class and loads quickly. Well laid out. Downside if you are living in Australia is that you don't get access to the Australia section that comes with the paper version. While an excellent reader app, it has no multi media utility. So can't access the crossword and no video. The crossword utility lags (say) the Melbourne Age newspaper. The video lags T3 and Robb Report.

Unreliable. I've just remembered why I dislike this App - its downloads are unreliable. I flip flop between the Kindle version (it's so-so) and this one (more readable) but then I give up on the App because the download fails (this time it's the Christmas edition) and flop back to Kindle

Speccie. Brilliant writers take a bow

Still great after all these years. Well done to the editors and authors for maintaining a very high standard. It also appeals to my conservative standards and beliefs. It is always great to find like-minded folk. Keep it up.

Irelands violent men of peace by Douglass Murray. Enjoyed reading his article which was true to a point as it stinks as to how the IRA leaders were rewarded . As a former member of the RUC they were a disgrace and killed more of their own side with violence for not doing what they were instructed and many forced by fear to fight for them . I also served in the 22SAS before the troubles and the top instructors of the regiment were Irish from the South of Ireland and from memory I think 480K Irish died fighting for the UK government even though their own country was neutral during the war and were awarded I think 7 VCs for bravery and in my time in the regiment many were Irish myself included

In defence of humour. I like the Spectator because it is so well written. Its contributors bring gravitas, knowledge and style; their scribblings, spiced with a delightful sense of humour. My sort of humour! As I read the daily sermons about this serious and virtuous Anglo sphere; rifted by ‘Wokery’ and deadened by self-righteousness, the Spectator calls out ‘phoneys’, rejecting their victimhood to the sound of eggshells crunching under-foot. All of which adds insight, but is essential to the preservation of humour and irony, in a world so lacking in perspective.

Weekly laughs. Excellent app. It works. Extremely easy to navigate. Well informed and researched articles. Columnists I have come to care about. Bitchy, satirical, outrageous, right wing, left wing (sometimes) always persuasive. LOL

Specce App. Great app for a great mag. Good navigation, excellent hi res pics, especially in absolutely essential arts and book review section.

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Great job. My week wouldn’t be complete without it.

Spectator App. Worst newspaper app ever.

First rate. An excellent - one might say unique - source of information of all things literary and political. Well worth it. Witty and erudite, timely and timeless, it would be cheap at twice the price.

One of the best political magazines around. This is such a pleasure to read compared to the usual dull "consensus media" magazines on the market today. Intelligent analysis, thought provoking articles laced with classic British humour throughout.

Alexander Cross. The best magazine around for politics, culture, and the arts. An antidote to the crazy age we live in, smart, funny, logical.

Best read around. Unbiased (mostly) analysis with witty writing on current issues unavailable anywhere else. Simply the best. Except for the loss of Jeremy and now, Taki! Mr. Liddle, please stay with us forever even though you and I fundamentally disagree on occasion. And the rest.

Lucid, Witty, Insightful. Probably the best weekly ever published. Writing is always top-shelf, opinion is spot on.

Smart and funny- best mag ever. I love the wit, insight and speaking up when others hide behind pretences and fake news. Keep going! Should be a mandatory reading material- especially in Canada

Great to have speedy delivery ~ BUT. I was a print subscriber for years but waiting for Canada Post to get it in my mailbox became a frustration. Now I have my favourite magazine before it's at the newsagent's stand in the UK. Still miss having the rolled up copy in my pocket but the speedy delivery is making up for that. That was before the “improvements”. The website accessed by Safari or Firefox is great. The app is an absolute and total disaster - too many faults to list. A shame because I can no longer access this marvellous content without WiFi, not always available where I live.

Excellent magazine but app doesn’t work on older phones. This app keeps crashing and won’t stay open for more than a few seconds at a time.

The source for political insight. The most stimulating and thought provoking magazine out. There is a need for such in the UK if the nation is to be saved from the straight jacket of "political correctness" and the need to preserve freedom of expression.

Undoubtedly the best.... Greatly enjoy The Spectator - especially on the iPad app. Excellent writing, balanced and nuanced views...and, oh! The cartoons!

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